Explore: Sight Word

significant problems with sight words are: (1) memorizing sight words is labour intensive, requiring on average about 35 trials per word, and (2) teachers who

The Dolch word list is a list of frequently used English words (also known as sight words), compiled by Edward William Dolch, a major proponent of the

language, by means of sight or touch. For educators and researchers, reading is a multifaceted process involving such areas as word recognition, orthography

whole-word or look-say method of word recognition (also called sight reading). The Dick and Jane primers introduced new readers to one new word on each

language or the set known to an individual. The word vocabulary originated from the Latin vocabulum, meaning "a word, name". It forms an essential component of

100(4), 589-608. Ehri, L.C. (1992). Reconceptualizing the development of sight word reading and its relationship to recoding. In P. Gough, L. Ehri & R. Treiman

commonly called "misspellings". A misspelled word can be a series of letters that represents no correctly spelled word of the same language at all (such as "leik"

ISBN 978-1-4066-1021-5. Seidenberg, Mark (2017). Language at the Speed of Sight: How We Read, Why So Many Can't, and What Can Be Done About It. New York

measure an individual's accuracy and fluency regarding two efficiencies; Sight Word Efficiency (SWE) and Phonemic Decoding Efficiency (PDE). SWE measures

familiar words by accessing them directly from memory––a process Ehri called sight word reading. Since her retirement in 2018, Ehri has continued advising students